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The Georgia Railroad Bank and Trust Company in Augusta, pictured circa 1903, was established in Athens in 1833 as the Georgia Railroad Company. Two years later the company began its banking operations, and in 1840 it moved its headquarters to Augusta.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Georgia Railroad Bank

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